Histone chaperone networks shaping chromatin function

CM Hammond, CB Strømme, H Huang… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2017 - nature.com
The association of histones with specific chaperone complexes is important for their folding,
oligomerization, post-translational modification, nuclear import, stability, assembly and …

Histone core modifications regulating nucleosome structure and dynamics

P Tessarz, T Kouzarides - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2014 - nature.com
Post-translational modifications of histones regulate all DNA-templated processes, including
replication, transcription and repair. These modifications function as platforms for the …

The role of FACT in managing chromatin: disruption, assembly, or repair?

T Formosa, F Winston - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract FACT (FAcilitates Chromatin Transcription) has long been considered to be a
transcription elongation factor whose ability to destabilize nucleosomes promotes RNAPII …

Chromatin replication and epigenome maintenance

C Alabert, A Groth - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2012 - nature.com
Stability and function of eukaryotic genomes are closely linked to chromatin structure and
organization. During cell division the entire genome must be accurately replicated and the …

Parental histone transfer caught at the replication fork

N Li, Y Gao, Y Zhang, D Yu, J Lin, J Feng, J Li, Z Xu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
In eukaryotes, DNA compacts into chromatin through nucleosomes,. Replication of the
eukaryotic genome must be coupled to the transmission of the epigenome encoded in the …

Histone chaperones: assisting histone traffic and nucleosome dynamics

ZA Gurard-Levin, JP Quivy… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The functional organization of eukaryotic DNA into chromatin uses histones as components
of its building block, the nucleosome. Histone chaperones, which are proteins that escort …

[HTML][HTML] Filming biomolecular processes by high-speed atomic force microscopy

T Ando, T Uchihashi, S Scheuring - Chemical reviews, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the history of science and technology, researchers have always undertaken endeavors to
enhance the degree of “directness of measurement”. With “directness of measurement”, we …

Specialized replication of heterochromatin domains ensures self-templated chromatin assembly and epigenetic inheritance

P Nathanailidou, J Dhakshnamoorthy… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Heterochromatin, defined by histone H3 lysine 9 methylation (H3K9me), spreads across
large domains and can be epigenetically inherited in a self-propagating manner …

Ubiquitin and proteasomes in transcription

F Geng, S Wenzel, WP Tansey - Annual review of biochemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Regulation of gene transcription is vitally important for the maintenance of normal cellular
homeostasis. Failure to correctly regulate gene expression, or to deal with problems that …

Glutamine methylation in histone H2A is an RNA-polymerase-I-dedicated modification

P Tessarz, H Santos-Rosa, SC Robson… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Nucleosomes are decorated with numerous post-translational modifications capable of
influencing many DNA processes. Here we describe a new class of histone modification …